Movies: David Susskind

Following their parents' divorce and their mother's subsequent suicide, a teenager and his younger brother are resentful of having to live with the father from whom they have long been estranged, and the struggle to reestablish a relationship is expl...

Charles Durning appears as the legendary baseball manager Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel in this one-man show presented before a live studio audience....

A newspaper sportswriter has a special connection to the supernatural....

An extensive interview originally broadcast in Feb. 1979. Host David Susskind and Truman Capote discuss the icon's history, his writing, his social persona and impact. More than an interview, the wide-ranging conversation between longtime friends del...

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating....

A made-for-television remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film....

A betrayed queen takes a terrible revenge....

Frank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up — but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a comeback, as long as his wife Georgie doesn't interfere....

After the Great Depression, Victor Franz gave up going to college to support his father. After 30 years, Victor returns to sell his parents’ estate. His wife, Esther, his brother, Walter, and a canny furniture dealer have their own agendas. Victor mu...

The historic interview that stopped JFK in his tracks......

A happily married family man, owner of a parking garage in Manhattan, drifts into a romance with one of his customers who has been having troubles with her lover....

A young wife discovers that she has Hodgkin's Disease. It can be treated, but complicating the situation is the fact that she is pregnant, and the treatment can endanger the life of her unborn baby, as well as herself....

When two brothers traveling across country stop in a small town diner to escape a storm, they are taken to be murderers by the locals....

Recounts the events of the final years of Napoleon, culminating in his exile on the isle of St. Helena....

The story of Tom and Joann Hammil, a divorced couple who explore new relationships while maintaining their mutual affection a year after their sixteen-year marriage has ended. A sequel to Breaking Up (1978)....

A British housewife faces up to the harsh realities of the Second World War....

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial....

Based on the book by Mary Carter, "Tell Me My Name" is about a girl's visit to the woman who gave her up for adoption 19 years earlier. The adoption was a secret which now threatens to destroy the entire family....

"An after-dinner farrago" featuring British writers and performers Michael Flanders and Donald Swann....

Recreating the one-man show he starred in on Broadway, Hal Holbrook portrays Mark Twain as a 70-year old humorist who skewers politicians, newspapermen and so-called patriots in this 90 minute monologue. Holbrook adapted Twain's own words for a comme...